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nicgutierrez
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11 years ago

How to use text.format

Hello. I'm working on a custom component and I'm trying to use text.format to localize the copy. Here's the sentence that I need to localise:   <h4>${notification.target.actor.login} @mention...
  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    11 years ago

    Hi nicgutierrez 

     

    you can definitely use placeholders in your text keys and pass appropriate variables when you use them

     

    For example , if you defined custom-text-key = "My name is {0}"

     

    Then what you can do is:

     

    <#assign myName = "Slim Shady">
${text.format("custom-text-key",myName)}

    Or even having multiple placeholders and so on ...

     

    Hope it helps!

     

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nicgutierrez
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Hey GrazittiI .

Thanks again for your help.


I was thinking actually at a solution like this one the problem is that this is an easy example but for other string and other languages maybe the keys order could be different (like date formats) and I want to keep that open and easy to change.

There is maybe another easy fix and should be create custom placeholders like %%user%% and %%subject%% and then user ?replace( '%%user%%', 'Nicolas' ) before echoing the string but I was looking for a native implementation.

Thanks.

Nic

PaoloT's avatar
PaoloT
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi nicgutierrez 

 

you can definitely use placeholders in your text keys and pass appropriate variables when you use them

 

For example , if you defined custom-text-key = "My name is {0}"

 

Then what you can do is:

 

<#assign myName = "Slim Shady">
${text.format("custom-text-key",myName)}

Or even having multiple placeholders and so on ...

 

Hope it helps!

 

  • nicgutierrez's avatar
    nicgutierrez
    Ace
    11 years ago

    Ciao PaoloT .

    Works like a charm, thank you.
    I was trying to pass as argument some values from the REST call and I noticed that works only if you cast the values as strings, i.e.:

    ${text.format( 'pdc6.notifications.liked_string', notification.target.actor.login?string, subject?string )}

    Other than that: it's perfect.

    Thanks.
    Nic